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World War I Articles

We are delighted to share nearly a thousand articles on every aspect of the First World War written by experts in their field. Some were first published in the WFA's publications Stand To! or Bulletin, but the majority have been specially researched and written for the WFA's website.

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Douglas Clark
8 December 2013

Douglas Clark - a rugby hero

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Great War Tunnelling And Mining
8 December 2013

Great War Tunnelling and Mining

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Planning Armageddon Royal Navy Strategy
8 December 2013

Planning Armageddon? Royal Navy strategy

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The British Army In 1913 Readying The Rapier
7 December 2013

The British Army in 1913: Readying the Rapier

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The Possibility Of War Civilian Life In Britain
7 December 2013

The possibility of war: civilian life in Britain

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Guards Chapel Outside
11 November 2013

The Address at the Guards Chapel, 11 November 2013, by Prof Brian Bond

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Recruits At No 5 Convalescent Camp
7 October 2013

Unknown Soldiers – a 1918 Draft

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General Lionel Dunsterville
29 September 2013

Dunsterforce: The Fighting in North-West Persia During 1918

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Soldier's Pay Book, AB64.
25 September 2013

'In the event of my death': An analysis of what can be gleaned from soldiers wills

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Marfaux Cemetery For Leonard Maidment
20 August 2013

The day my family came

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Robert Alexander Little
18 August 2013

'Rikki' Little: Australia's Greatest Ace

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Gavrillo Princip
29 July 2013

Who started The First World War?

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28 July 2013

Fighting the Tangistanis: Bushire, Persia, July – September 1915

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Field Marshal Earl Roberts
27 July 2013

We Have Been Here Before: the Evolution of the Doctrine of Decentralised Command in the British Army 1905-1989

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Sir Douglas Haig (3)
27 July 2013

Haig and the Implementation of Tactical Doctrine on the Western Front

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Leonard Maidment Ww1 Soldier Hampshire Regiment
20 July 2013

Leonard Maidment: missing, found, now remembered

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HMS Glatton
23 June 2013

Two men with five names: The Curious Case of Cornelius Costello

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HMS Vanguard
23 June 2013

Accidental losses to Royal Navy warships

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An Aerial View Of The Bridoux Salient 1916
26 May 2013

'The Bosches seem to have done pretty well what they intended to do': I ANZAC Corps and the German Raid on the Bridoux Salient, May 1916

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15 May 2013

Did Kitchener’s decision to raise his ‘New Armies’ carelessly wreck the pre-war plans to achieve smooth and effective British military expansion?

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